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PARSON AND THE BOY;

OR,

BUSTLE:

that they had had counsel's opinion to warrant them in refusing to admit your charge against the Duke's man, or boy, or whatever

THE FIRE-SHOVEL HATS IN A he was. Now, if you were not justified in seizing the Duke's fel. Being an Account of the Trial of low, you were, on your own rethe Reverend THOMAS JEPH-peated confession, guilty of an SON, Doctor of Divinity, and assault. The Grand Jury must, Tutor at Cambridge, on therefore, have differed in opinion Charge of attempting to comfrom the two parsons with the mit an Unnatural Crime on two counsellors at their back. JAMES WELSH, a labourer.

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MR. RICHARD DELLER.
Reigate, Surrey, 29 July, 1823.

SIR,

I remember, and I have rccorded, the political works of the Hampshire Parsons, in March, 1817. I remember, too, that, upon that occasion, when Willis (I think the fellow is now called Fleming) said the Meeting was THE fire-shovels have been at dissolved, the polite and sensible you of late, and therefore I shall and public-spirited Mr. Holiis, address myself to you in the re- or Hollest, or whatever his name marks that I am about to make on is, threatened to take us into custhe following account; or, rather, tody if we did not instantly defor the greater part, on the Speech part. Of this HOLLEST I now of the City Lawyer, DENMAN, hear what gives me, and ought to who, not very long ago, passed give all honest men, great satisthat memorable sentence on the faction. But, I have not the doshopman of Mr. Carlile. Par-cuments. I wish you would be sons POULTER and WRIGHT held so good as to send me the newsyou to bail for an assault on a papers, where the affair of Hollest servant of the descendant of Rollo, is fully stated; and, if possible, the first Duke of Normandy. The what he has published in his deGrand Jury, at the late Quarter fence. Sessions, did, I find, throw out the "But," says some one, "what bill, though POULTER, in his pub-" has all this to do with the Parlished letter (I think it was) said " son and the Boy?" You will that the assault was a gross one. not ask that question. It is about At any rate they bound you over a parson we are going to hear; to the Quarter Sessions. This is and, I can, for my part, never a notorious fact; and they said, see, or hear of, any parson, with,

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out thinking of the Hampshire fession, with a boy of the name of Parsons. However, more about Welsh, in some fields and amongst these another time; and let us some hedges and ditches, near the now see a little about this Cam- city of Cambridge, on the 16th of bridge University man. You last May. Out of this arose a know what an University is? Aye, trial at the late Cambridge Asand so we do all. We know sizes, an account of which trial I what immense masses of property, shall by-and-by lay before you. public property, the Colleges swal- But, first of all let us see a sketch low up. Before Parliament meet of a plan of the scene of action. again, we must think of a suitable The THING treats us to plans petition on this subject. That enough of its battles and marches. wise man, Coke of Norfolk, called There have been five thousand it sacrilegious to propose to take plans, I dare say, of the battle of away any part of that, which is (im- Waterloo. It just now occurs to pudently enough) called Church me, that when the news of that Property. Enormous is the mass battle arrived, I happened to meet, of this property. The Colleges of at a place called Long Mead the University suck up a large part End, near Botley, the very Holof it. It is impossible that this can lest above-mentioned, in answer go on much longer; and we must to whose exultations, I said: You prepare petitions on the subject. will not, mind, have your feet upon When the " Bishop and the our necks long: the Debt will Soldier came forth before the come to our assistance. Waterloo public, the fire-shovels were all in battle plans the THING has given dismay. In the present case there us thousands of; but, I have no is a "Not Guilty;" and, there- hesitation to say, that the affair of fore, it is but fair to give the fire- the Parson and the Boy is of a shovels the benefit of it, be it million times more consequence worth what it may. The history to this country than the battle of of the affair is this: a REVE- Waterloo. So seem to think the REND Thomas Jephson, a Doc- Editors of the Huntingdon and tor of Divinity, was, some how or Cambridge paper, from which I other, according to his own con- copy the following sketch of a plan.

EXPLANATIONS OF THE PLAN.

A and C-An occupation, or private, rond, going from the public road W, round to the fields D and E; and along which private road Jephson went,"

B-The Cricket Ground.

D-The first field of Mr. Broadbelt, that Jephson crossed.

E-The nineteen acre field of Mr. Broadbelt, where Welsh swears that Jephson came to him in the morning, and also in the evening.

F-The spot near which are the gravel pits, where Welsh had been at work.

G-The gap through which Welsh directed Jephson to go to the gate H.

H-The gate against the Cherry Hinton read.

I-The spot where Welsh says the hedge is thicker than in general, where he says Jephson made the first attempt, and where he says Jephson came to him again in the evening.

K-The gate where the other witnesses say they saw Jephson hugging Welsh.

L-The spot where the witnesses say that Jephson first got into the ditch.

M-The drinking place, or dell, where the men lay hidden, and that Welsh crossed to go to the gap O.

N-The gap through which Jephson went to get to the ditch P, where he was taken.

O-The gap where Welsh went through to meet Jephson

P-The ditch, where Jephs n was taken.

Q-The gate, to which Jephson was led by the witnesses.

R-The hay-stack, where the money and watch were given by Jephson.

S-The Mill.

T-Brigg's house, within thirty yards of the spot where Jephson gave up his money and watch. W-The public road, leading to Cherry Hinton

With this Plan before us, we more intelligible. What, then, shall be able to make our history is this history, as stated in the

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evidence which we find in print? | place, and went and seized the We are not making any asser-Spiritual Person in the ditch, P, tions; nor are we, at present, in a state which I must leave the offering any opinions; I am about witnesses to describe. That merely to put into the shape of the men took him along towards a history, the substance of what the gate Q, and threatened to is asserted by the witnesses; and take him to his College, as the that substance is this:-That, on Right Reverend Father in God, Friday, the 16th of May, about PERCY JOCELYN, was taken to the mid-day, JAMES WELSH (aged watchhouse of St. James's parish, 20 years) had just quitted gravel- in company with his doxy, JOHN digging, and was going across the MOVELLY, a Soldier of the Foot great field, E, in which he saw Guards. That Jephson beJephson, who came up to him, sought them not to do this; and and after asking him the way to offered them money to let him Cherry Hinton, proceeded to That, at last, they, having make his unnatural propositions. first taken him to the hay-stack, -That, after having pulled Welsh R, let him go, upon his giving about a good deal and torn his them to pounds nine shillings trowsers and committed great in- and sixpence and his watch.decencies, he asked Welsh to That there were five men who lay meet him at the same place in the hid in the dell; and that, when evening of that same day, which they had dismissed the Reverend Welsh promised to do.-That Member of the "Holy Order," Welsh then went home, and that as it is called by this Sergeant he told several persons what had Judge, the six divided the money taken place, and, amongst others, amongst them--That these men, some men, who engaged to go besides Welsh, were, JOSEPH in the evening and to lie in am- HART, a cabinet maker; GEORGE bush, in order to catch the mon- WISEMAN, a labourer; WILLIAM ster. That, when the evening BUTTRESS, a labourer; JAMES came, these men went and hid them- BUTTRESS, a turf-dealer; and selves in a little dell, or drink-PHILIP LANGHAM, a labourer.--ing place for cattle, at M, while That the watch remained undisWelsh went to meet the Parson posed of; and that, the next day, at a place, I.-That the Reverend Saturday, in consequence of some Doctor came punctually to his conversation between them, Hart time. That, after divers shocking and Wiseman, went, about ten indecencies, he let down his mid- o'clock in the evening, to St. John's dle garment; but was drawn on College, where they saw the Docby Welsh from I to K, and then tor, of Divinity and offered him to L, and then to the gap N, and, his watch; but, that he would while the College Tutor was going hold no conversation with them; through that gap, Welsh went told them to go out of his room; along round by the men in the and shut the door against them.— dell, who, after Welsh had got Thus far the operations with the round through the gap, O, and the men. Then, as to the Doctor's Reverend Gentleman had pro- subsequent movements, it is, in ceeded to nearly the last ex-evidence, that, on this same Saturtremity, came out of their hiding day, the 17th of May, he went.